“Ah well, you’re not dead!” : the character of Auguste Armand in “Here it all begins” on TF1 still sticks to Francis Huster’s skin

In 2020, Auguste Armand, tutelary figure of the series Here it all begins, disappeared on screen in murky circumstances (murdered, we learned three years later).

Four years later, the shadow of the famous chef still hangs over the intrigues of the TF1 soap opera, in the culinary institute that bears his name.

And the character sticks to the skin of the star who played him.

“I am still Auguste Armand”

“I’m still Auguste Armand, in the street, people continue to say to me: “Ah well, you’re not dead!”laughs Francis Huster, contacted by Midi Libre.

Same phenomenon in Saint-Laurent-d’Aigouze (Gard), “There are people who come to visit the Auguste-Armand Institute and ask if they can have lunch there at noon, it’s incredible! All these studios that they have created in the region, in Sète, everywhere, it “It’s extraordinary, I take my hat off to them, they understood what had to be done.”underlines the actor.

This concept is great because it gives young actors the chance to learn their craft, with real roles.

But this prism of the school of gastronomy, chosen for this daily fiction from TF1, has other virtues, according to Francis Huster. “This concept is great, because it gives young actors the chance to learn their craft, with real roles,” he emphasizes.

“And we find on the screen a rainbow of actors who completely correspond to what François Florent and I fought for to allow young people to come to Cours Florent without paying a penny, It was the free class. Here it all begins, it’s the free class of television. Hi Francis Huster.